Piece of shit Trump goes ape on dogs.

'The upshot is that an octogenarian Air Force retiree who spent half a century in his nation’s service was not allowed to attend a party for a dog he essentially donated to the government and named after his dead wife.'

What a lump of garbage this president is, what a shrivelled little desiccated, infantile old man.

[14-day gift read]

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/07/james-clapper-cia-dog-trump/683575/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK3qM_sRCH0-eKftoLTXJn3s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#dogs #politics #uspol #trump #animalhater

This is a five alarm fire. The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk," Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday. "Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security. This should not be a partisan issue."

Conservative anti-Trump voice Rick Wilson, who helped found the Lincoln Project group, said, "This isn't trolling." https://www.rawstory.com/musk-national-security-threat-usaid/

Some notes from analyzing the bash part obfuscation of the xz/liblzma part – link leads to the part I found most interesting – it was added in 5.6.1:
https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?lang=en&id=782#stage2-ext

TL;DR: in 5.6.1 there's some code added that looks for specific signatures in files in tests/files, and if found, it grabs some data from these files, deciphers them, and executes them. NO FILES WITH THESE SIGNATURES EXIST YET, so it's like a way to extend the backdooring scripts in the future by just adding new binary test files. Guess things weren't supposed to end here.

#xz #liblzma

Cheetahs evolved to mimic the coloration/fur of honey badgers when they're young and this fact is delightful. Lots of things want to eat baby animals. Few things want to fuck with a honey badger.

#animals #nature #evolution #cheetah

https://app.suno.ai/song/1f05746b-f002-4dd3-971c-61c997cccd6e/

AI generated song about the 10M #AmateurRadio band

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Wired's Andy Greenberg has a terrific story out about the trio of young men who were the original authors and overlords of the Mirai "internet of things" botnet malware -- before they recklessly leaked its source code back in 2016 and stuck us with the dozens of Mirai IoT botnets we still have today.

Andy managed to convince all three to open up about their upbringing, how they got into cybercrime, and what they were thinking at every major step of the way.

To my mind, this story highlights two noteworthy facts about the Mirai investigation by law enforcement. Number one, the FBI almost certainly set a new speed record for investigating and prosecuting a major cybercrime case.

But also, it's hard to think of another cybercrime prosecution that resulted in a better outcome for all concerned.

Anyway, it's a long read, but well worth it:

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-hackers-web-killing-monster/